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About Shieldra
Shieldra exists to make AI compliance continuous, understandable, and audit-ready — so teams shipping AI can answer the EU AI Act and enterprise governance questions without burying small teams in manual evidence work.
By the Shieldra Compliance Team · Last updated July 2026
Key takeaways
- Shieldra is the AI-governance-first compliance platform for companies shipping AI features.
- It leads with the EU AI Act, US state AI laws, ISO/IEC 42001, and NIST AI RMF, and runs SOC 2, HIPAA, HITRUST, and NIST CSF in the same workspace.
- AI-law classification is deterministic and citation-backed: every answer traces to a statutory citation, not an LLM guess.
- Security is a design constraint, not a feature: the same rigor we ask customers to prove, applied to ourselves.
The problem we set out to solve
- Shipping an AI feature quietly changed what companies have to prove, and most teams have no dedicated compliance function
- EU AI Act Article 50 transparency duties and penalties took effect on 2 August 2026, and US states enforce their own AI laws today
- Enterprise buyers now attach AI governance questions to security questionnaires, and deals stall without answers
- Most teams also need SOC 2 or HIPAA before long, and running them as separate programs doubles the work
- Constant regulatory change requires continuous policy updates, and manual evidence goes stale
How we approach it
Most compliance tooling assumes someone whose full-time job is compliance. Most teams shipping AI do not have that person — the CTO, the founder, or a security lead is doing it alongside everything else. Shieldra is built for that reality: the software carries the recurring work rather than handing you a checklist and wishing you luck.
- An AI system registry with deterministic, citation-backed EU AI Act and US state-law classification
- Article 50 transparency tracking, shadow-AI discovery, and a verified AI vendor catalog
- AI-generated remediation steps for every gap, with evidence attached to each control
- SOC 2, HIPAA, HITRUST, and NIST CSF in the same workspace, always audit-ready
What we believe
AI governance, specifically
We built Shieldra for teams shipping AI rather than adapting a general-purpose GRC tool. The EU AI Act, US state AI laws, ISO 42001, and NIST AI RMF are the problem domain, not a vertical add-on — and answers are deterministic and citation-backed, never an LLM guess.
Security first
Every architectural decision, feature, and deployment starts with security. We protect customer data with the same rigor we expect for our own.
Automation that adapts
Intelligent automation that learns and adapts, not static checklists. The AI scans documents, detects gaps, suggests remediations, and surfaces compliance drift before it becomes an incident.
Frequently asked questions
Who is Shieldra built for?
Teams shipping AI features — B2B SaaS selling into the EU or to enterprise, and healthcare organizations handling PHI — that need AI governance and security compliance but do not have a dedicated compliance team.
What does Shieldra actually do?
It runs AI governance first — an AI system registry, deterministic EU AI Act and US state-law classification, Article 50 tracking, shadow-AI discovery, and a verified AI vendor catalog — alongside SOC 2, HIPAA, HITRUST, and NIST CSF, with remediation tasks and audit-ready evidence exports.
Does Shieldra store protected health information?
The standard platform is a No-PHI service intended for compliance documentation, policies, risk assessments, and audit evidence. PHI processing requires separate written authorization under a Business Associate Agreement.
